The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-13
YOUNG PATTERSON,
WHO DID HAYEs'S DIRTY WOEH
I'M SOUTH CAROLINA.
Arrested and in the TOmbs of New
YOsk-A YOunE MAN of Many
hcaemes.

ter oG, the you g man woo IS at pres
ent Ell oyiDg Ward n W6lsn's bospi-
tally at the Tom S beranse he sgil-
died Hsr y Hill nut of So by rel resent
ing him'e as q United Sta'es MsTsual,
is a young man Of an sdveI turous
rowing spirit, and has a big history.
The priL cipa trouble with him eeems
to bs h partially for schemes Of dsr
ing magnitude and imp ss be attain
ment. This lit lie failing has landed
him in cell No. l27 in the fourth tier
OF the Tnmb5 PRISON, where he sirs
and wonders when his wealthy friends
will reacn Nav York 10 bail him our.
The story of his arrest ia short. On
Monday he called on Harry Hill at the
Csricsture cafe, on Bro dwsy, ard told
him he was United States Marshal
sent to help him get a license TO sell
beer in his Houston street place.
The typewriting would cost about
S. he eaid. Hill gave it to
him and Paterson left. Mr..
Hill then told one of the caricatures
that work for him 10 follow and see
where he went. Pa ters)n went to q
Thirteenth street hotel and hired a
room, rendering in payment the S.
bill Harry Hill had given 10 him. Mr..
Hill was informed OF his whe'esbouts,
and few moments later Paterson
W 8 in cell in the Mulberry Street
Station. charged with swinding. On
Tuesday he was taken before Justice
Duffy in the Tombs Police Court or d
held in $500 bail FIR trial. HIS history
Is o luIid one. He has been all over
the United States and some parts #
South Amer Ca; has carried Doodle
into South Ca DINA for the Rapubli-
cans when Hayes was runnir e for tt g
Presidency; has worked for the State
Repu olican Committee of New York,
aod mas manipulated a wire in the
New Jersey Legislature for band OF
capitalists from California. On his
left forearm, just about an inch below
the elbow, there is big round
whits mark. That shows wnsre he
was 8 OF while in Arizona. His iatser
Ia Ok United States Senator Patterson,
OF s nth Carolina, now prominent
railroad contractor of Pennsylvania.
Patterson is about % years old and
has pleasing face. A thick, reddieh
brown musiache covers his lip, and he
has dark brown eyes which are very
restless. He left South Carolina in
1880, when his father went to Penn
sylvania. Since then he hes roamed
a over. He went with a man named
Pick 10 Arizona. Peck saw good
paying mine that he took fancy to.
He couldn't buy ii, aud obtsine d pos
session by jumping the claim. Ia that
locality Jumping q calm is worse
crime than horse stealing, aud murder
is q pastime compared to it. The
result W As that little shooting negan
and Peck was shot through tue
lungs. Pa tiers n was hit in The
arm. When Peek got so full of
lead that he fel d jwn aud died, Pat
ttIson saunlered off. Il California he
met A. T. X. H9pkins, aud went t >
W rk as q cert OF sgsnt. Hopkins WIS
ipt-re ted in several concert saloons
and wanted more. Whenever q salo n
etruok bis fancy Pa terson acted a. his
age in making the purchase. Hop
kins in reduced him to G orge A.
Seoor and George r Rowan, bother
ca 4 alists, and they formed asyndi
cate 10 buy blooms 10 New York, and
this, he told reporter for the Star
yesterday. was his business hsre.
They authorized me to see John d.
Long in the first place." said Patter-
son. Long is proprietor of the Chel.
sea Garden, Hopkins aud the rest
knew about the law being enforced,
and told me to go and see Long and
find out IL they could purchase the ga
loon. We wanted to see the Mayor,
hut he was sick, aod we did not think
Mr.. Bsekman would do. A great deal
of correspondence passed between
myself and Mr.. Berry, but 1t never
came to anything. Well, al er saw
Loug and explained that we wanted
to get all the help we could to crush
the law, he signed an agreement aud
gave me SIS for typewriting, Last Sat.
urdav Mr.. Rowan told me to see Hill
aud went on MOuday. Hill told me
to call again. Rowan said he woHld
give me $40 when the bushes, was
c completed, and told m to get SIS from
Hill for typewriting." B fore | went
to SEQ Mr.. Hill on Monday night l
took of badge had on. 1t was a
Gre and police badge of New Londen,
OF. sill had a badge on my vest,
fire badge No. 50 OF Baltimore, which
/ got when was superintendent OF
the Baltimore CITY Railroad. did
not tell Mr.. Hill that l was a. Off GER,
aud il he saw my badge and thought l
was an officer he is mistaken, that is
ali. There was no attempt vt fraud on
my pat. Rlwan, II Jpklns and Secor
are now in Washington, but as soon
as they come back this thing will be
fixed up all right. 1t is mistake on
Mr.. Hits part" Patterson's father is
now In Chicago attending to some
railroad business, and has been tele-
oranhad for